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R. W. HILIFF.

BRUSH.

No. 388,137. Patented Aug. 21, 1888.

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UNITED STATES PATENT @ErrcE.

RICHARD \V. ILIFF, OF HINSDALE, ILLINOIS.

BRUSH.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 388,137, dated August21, 1888.

Application filed February 523, 1887. Serial No. 228,614.

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, RICHARD W. ILIFF, a citizen of the United States,residing at Hinsdale, Du Page county, Illinois, have invented certainnew and useful Improvements in Brushes, of which the following is aspecification.

The invention relates to improvements in paintbrushes, and especially tothe bridles often attached thereto; and it consists in the constructionand novel combination of parts hereinafter described, and pointed out inthe appended claim.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of apaint-brush with the bridle attached. Fig. 2 is a perspective view ofthe bridle detached. Fig. 3 is adetail view of a portion of the bridle,showing the attachment of the copper wire.

Referring to the drawings by letter, A designates a brush, having thehandle A and the wrappingwire a, of usual construction.

13 is the bridle-strap, made of some flexible material, and providednear one end with the stud or button E, and near the other end with aseries of aligned slots, D, having the enlarged portions (1, for theinsertion of the head of the button at their inner ends. The bridlestrapis preferably of equal width throughout, and has at the lower edge ofthe end adjacent to the slots D a turned'up flap, F, forming aseat, f,for the lower edge of the opposite end when the strap is closed.

0 G are copper wires arranged on each side of the bridle strap, and eachwire is doubled at the center and passed at that pointthrough theopenings 0 c, which are aligned vertically and are below the upper edgeof the bridle strap. The wire is so passed that both ends will beoutside the bridlestrap, and the said ends are twisted from the strap tosuch a distance that when the parts are applied to the brush the twistedbranch of the wire will pass along the sides and over the top of thewrapped wire held of the brush. At the top of the head of the brush thetwisted branches of the wire 0 are bent at an angle inward toward thehandle, and when the wire reaches the latter the two (Model.

branches are separated and passed in opposite directions one or moretimes around the brush. After encircling the brush as many times as maybe desired the extreme ends of the wire are twisted together, as at d.

In putting the device on the paint-brush, the upper edge of the strap isplaced against the lower edge of the wrappingwire a and but toned astightly as possible around the bristles. The copper wires are thenbrought up, as above stated, and their untwisted ends wrapped around thehandle A a sufficient number of times to retain the wires and tightlyenough to keep the edge of the strap close against the lower edge of thewrapping-wire, so that no paint can ooze between the two when the brushis in use. By means of said bridle the bristles of a new brush may beheld closely together and prevented from spreading, so that the brushwill flow paint as evenly and equally as a half-worn brush.

It is necessary to use some soft and very flexible wire-such as copperwireelse the bridle strap could not be brought up close against the edgeof the wrapping-wires, nor could the device be taken off one brush andplaced on a second one when the first was worn out. By using the copperwire the device can be placed successively on more than a dozen brushes.

By means of the openings 0 c the wire G can be brought up on the outsideof the bridlestrap, so as not to prevent close contact between saidstrap and the wrappingwire.

Having described my invention, I claiin- The improved bridle forpaint-brushes herein described and shown, comprising the flexinected,one of the ends having an upturned flap, F, forming aseat, f, for theother end, the band being further provided with verticallyalignedopenings 0 c, and the flexible wires passed outward through saidopenings and twisted above the same, as specified.

RICHARD IV. ILIFF. Wi tnesses:

THOMAS A. BANNiNc, GEORGE O. 0001;.

ble band B, having its ends adjustably con-

